Regular Expressions 101

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Regular Expression
PCRE2 (PHP >=7.3)

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^((?!\.)[\w\d](?!.*\.\.)[a-zA-Z0-9\.!#$%&'*+\-\/=?^_`{|}~]*[^\.\s])@([a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z\d-]+[a-zA-Z\d]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,6}$
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gm

Description

Verify that a given e-mail address is valid.

We all know how complex emails are, but despite this, let's give it a try and see what we can come up with.

You could start by trying to match contact@regex101.com (denoted as <local-part>@<domain>.<top-level-domain>).

Submitted by anonymous - 2 months ago